Digital Transformation and Modernization with IBM API Connect: A practical guide to developing, deploying, and managing high-performance and secure hybrid-cloud APIs

Successfully execute a strategic roadmap of digital transformation and modernize your enterprise with a proven API-led agile implementation approach by unlocking the full range of features in IBM API Connect Version 10

Key Features

• Explore techniques to design and deliver valuable customer-centric APIs using API Connect
• Manage your APIs with improved security and optimal performance across many channels
• Uncover hidden capabilities that help improve business agility and management within your API ecosystem

Book Description

IBM API Connect enables organizations to drive digital innovation using its scalable and robust API management capabilities across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. With API Connect's security, flexibility, and high performance, you'll be able to meet the needs of your enterprise and clients by extending your API footprint. This book provides a complete roadmap to create, manage, govern, and publish your APIs.

You'll start by learning about API Connect components, such as API managers, developer portals, gateways, and analytics subsystems, as well as the management capabilities provided by CLI commands. You’ll then develop APIs using OpenAPI and discover how you can enhance them with logic policies. The book shows you how to modernize SOAP and FHIR REST services as secure APIs with authentication, OAuth2/OpenID, and JWT, and demonstrates how API Connect provides safeguards for GraphQL APIs as well as published APIs that are easy to discover and well documented. As you advance, the book guides you in generating unit tests that supplement DevOps pipelines using Git and Jenkins for improved agility, and concludes with best practices for implementing API governance and customizing API Connect components.

By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to transform your business by speeding up the time-to-market of your products and increase the ROI for your enterprise.

What you will learn

• Use API Connect to create, manage, and publish customer-centric, API-led solutions
• Run CLI commands to manage API configuration and deployments
• Create REST, SOAP, and GraphQL APIs securely using OpenAPI
• Support OAuth and JWT security methods using policies
• Create custom policies to supplement security
• Apply built-in policies to transform payloads
• Use CLIs and unit testing hooks within DevOps pipelines
• Find out how to customize Analytics dashboards and Portal User Interface

Who this book is for

This book is for developers and architects who want to achieve digital transformation using IBM API Connect and successfully execute the strategic roadmap of enterprise modernization while effectively managing their API ecosystem. A solid understanding of what RESTful services and APIs can do and where to implement API security is necessary to get started. Experience in application development and basic knowledge of microservices, container orchestration, and cloud environments will help you to get the most out of this book.

Table of Contents

1. Digital Transformation and Modernization with API Connect
2. Introducing API Connect
3. Setting Up and Getting Organized
4. API Creation
5. Modernizing SOAP Services
6. Supporting FHIR REST Services
7. Securing APIs
8. Message Transformations
9. Building a GraphQL API
10. Publishing Options
11. API Management and Governance
12. User-Defined Policies
13. Using Test and Monitor for Unit Tests
14. Building Pipelines for API Connect
15. API Analytics and the Developer Portal
16. What’s Next in Digital Transformation Post-COVID

As Trusted Advisor and CTO of the iSOA Group, Bryon Kataoka has established a reputation as a leader in architecture and technology, focused around IBM API Connect, Red Hat OpenShift, and DataPower gateways. Bryon has developed his style of professionalism, where education and knowledge is the driving innovative force to success. Bryon participates in IBM certification exams, has presented at conferences, and has authored The WebSphere Application Server Bible. He is a father of four, a home winemaker with his own vineyard, a decent golfer, and practices blues guitar. As an owner and lead consultant of McIndi Solutions, James Brennan is a recognized leader in the DataPower and IBM API Connect space. Jim has participated in developing IBM certification exams, has spoken at several IBM internal and customer-facing conferences, and is a coauthor of the IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Handbook, as well as the individual IBM DataPower volumes available. He is an accomplished musician with a prior career in musical performance, a father of three, and a fitness enthusiast. As the CEO and Technology Advisor of ANDD Techservices (USA and India), Ashish Aggarwal leads complex application modernization, integration, and API/SOA enablement projects. He has helped numerous industries, including telecoms, E&U, e-tailers, BFSI, and animal disease management implement API/SOA-oriented solutions. He has extensive architectural, operational, and development experience in multiple IBM integration products; for example, APIC, DataPower, ACE/IIB, and MQ. Ashish is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Delhi University.